How Much Money Does Silvio Berlusconi Make? Latest Income Salary

Silvio Berlusconi (Italian pronunciation: [Ëˆsilvjo berluËˆskoËni] ( listen); born 29 September 1936) is an Italian media tycoon and politician who has served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments.

Berlusconi is the controlling shareholder of Mediaset and owned the Italian football club A.C. Milan from 1986 to 2017. He is nicknamed Il Cavaliere (The Knight) for his Order of Merit for Labour, although he voluntarily resigned from this order in March 2014. In 2018, Forbes magazine ranked him as the 190th richest man in the world with a net worth of US$8.0 billion.

Berlusconi was Prime Minister for nine years in total, making him the longest-serving post-war Prime Minister of Italy, and the third longest-serving since Italian unification, after Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Giolitti. He was the leader of the centre-right party Forza Italia from 1994 to 2009, and its successor party The People of Freedom from 2009 to 2013.

Berlusconi was the first person to assume the premiership without prior government or administrative offices; moreover he is worldwide famous for his populist political style and brash, overbearing personality. In his long-time tenure, he was often accused of being an authoritarian leader and a strongman.